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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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Actor Performance Stage
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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Cry Horror Over
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

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